Combined clutch and brake



J. S.- TOWNSEND.

COMBINED CLUTCH AND BRAKE.

' APPLICATION FILED MAY?. 1921.

1,418,747., PatentedJune 6,1922.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

curren- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. TOWNSEND, OF. HARVEY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WHITING CORPORATION,

' OF HARVEY, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CLUTCH-AND BRAKE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 1 6 1922 Application filed May 7, 1921. Serial No. 467,567.

Toall whomit may concern: I ard'sare tied together by one or more con- Be it known that I, JOHN S. Townsnrm, a ventlonal tie rods. 20.

citizen of the United States, residin at The barrel 10 is provided with a conven- Harvey, in the county of Cook and btate tlonal g ear wheel 22 meshing withthe pinof Illinois, have invented a certain new and ion 24 mounted concentrically with shaft 26 useful Improvement in Combmed Clutches extending transversely of and somewhat and Brakes, of which the following is a above frame member '18, as will clearly apspecification. A pear from Figure 5.

This invention relates to combined clutch Rotatable on the shaft 26 and contacting and brake mechanism by which a single therewith on the two bushings 28 is a sleeve movement of a control member, usually a 30 to one end of which gear 24 is rigidly lever, shifts the parts froma position where secured. The opposite end of this sleeve 30 the clutch is in operation and the brake is carries rigid, and in'the particular case here free to the opposite position where the brake illustrated, integral therewith a hollow.

is in action and the clutch is released, or vice pulley or brake wheel 32. Projecting inversa. The invention is of general applica- Wardly from the opposite points in the tion, but it is for the convenience of illus flange of this wheel are keys 34 along which tration here shown as applied to a tumbling the central clutch disk 36 reciprocates in or rattle el. such manner that rotation with reference to The object of the invention is to prothe pulley rim is prevented. vide novel mechanism of this class having a Inside the pulley 32 and on opposite sides plurality of brake shoes in which the shoes of this central clutch disk 36 are side clutch automatically adjust themselves to the wheel disks 38 and 40, the former rigid on a hub or other rotating objects so that each shoe 42, the latter slidable along the hub but non applies uniform pressure-this without disrotatable with reference thereto by reason of turbing the action of the clutch or any of the presence of the key 44 carried by the hub. the other parts of the device. The inven- Screw threaded on the hub 42 is a nut 46 .tion consists in means for attaining t e carrying suitably disposed pivot pins 48 loforegoing objects which can be easily .nd cated on opposite sides thereof. Pivoted on cheaply made, which is satisfactory 1 use each one of these pins 48 is a lever 50 having and not readily liable to get out of o der. a longand a short arm. Each short arm More particularly, the invention consists in contacts the clutch plate 40 and is adapted to many features and details of construction when suitably energized shove the plate 40 hereafter more fully set forth in the specifialong the key 44 to the left as viewed in ati and claims. Figure 2, to thus clamp the clutch plates 36,

Referring to the drawings in which like 38, and 40 rigidly together, to in obvious numerals designate the same parts throughmanner, cause shaft 26, when energized by out ,the several views. suitable power, not shown, drive the gear 24.

Figure l is a plan view of the essential The ends of the longer arms'of lever 50 operating-mechanism of this invention. approach the shaft 26 as shown and are Figure 2 is a sectional side view on theline adapted to be engaged by cone faces 56 of 2-2 of-Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end view on the line 3-3 mounted on shaft 26 by means of a key or of Figure 2.1 keys 54 projecting therefrom. This cone Figure 4 is a plan view of a rattle barrel member 52 is movablebetween the full line mechanism having the device of this invenposition of Figure 2 where it forces lever tion in its preferred form applied thereto. arm 50 apart and thus causes the clutch to Figure 5 is an end View on the line 5-501 lock the shaft to the gear as described and Figure 2. j the dotted line position of the same figure In Figure 4 a rattle barrel 10 of convenin which the conical faces 56 of the cone tio nal form is shown provided with end member are clear of said lever arms and con trunnions 12which roll in bearing supports sequently no locking action takes place. On 14 formed on standards 16 and-18 which rest the right hand end of conical block 52 is on the floor of the shop or other locations -a radial flange 60 which is, as shown in where the device is to be used. These stand- Figure 2, overlapped by an inwardly turned clutch actuating member 52, non-rotatably flange 62 on a collar 64, This collar is reciprocatable along shaft 26 from the dotted line to the full line position Flgure 2. Shaft 26 is rotatable inside this collar 1ns1de the bushing 66. Projecting from opposite sides of this collar 64 are studs 68 on which are ivoted opposite side portions of the looped ever member 70, pivoted at one end 72 on a suitable support 74 and having at its opposite end a suitable handle 76 for convenient manual operation.

Extending from opposite sides of the collar 64 and as shown at 90 degrees from the studs 68 are lugs 78, each of which has a short rod 80 in turn connected at its outer end to the longer. arm of a lever .82. Each lever 82 is pivoted between its ends on a bolt 84 carried by a member, which 1s 1n some way divided so as to pass on opposlte sides of the shaft, in the particular embodiment shown, a ring 86. This ring is in turn pivoted intermediate between said levers 82 on a rod or stud 88 projecting from a suit able support such as the adjacent standard 2 18 of therattle barrel 10.

Also pivoted on this rod 88 intermediate between divided member or ring 86 and support 18 are two oppositely disposed and d1- rected curved lever arms 90 and 92 which terminate at their respective upward ends in the brake shoes 94 and 96 which bear upon opposite points on the circumferenceof the pulley 32., As each one of these brake shoes is engaged by an adjustable screw 100 carried by the adjacent one of lever arms 82, the operator can by adjusting a selected one of these screws, adjust the action of such a lever 82 on the brake shoe and consequently the action of that brake shoe on the pulley. I

The ring 86 is connected to the stud 88 through the action of a nut 102 which is loosely mounted so that the ring 86 may always rock slightly about the stud 88 and the stud 88 crosswise of the axis of shaft 26 in unison with the arms 90 and 92 and the brake shoes 94 and 96 attached to them. The result of this construction is that if as use extreme care in securing an exact uniform adjustment .of the screws 100 on respeotivebrake shoes, uniform action of the brake shoes under the action of lever 70 will still take place. The reason is that if one screw 100 is set in farther than the other,

so that when the operator begins to move lever 76 in thr? obvious manner and set the brake shoes on the pulley and he thereupon initially places a greater pressure on that particular brake shoe through screw 100, the

-. ring 86 automatically-swings on stud 88 until the position of the respective levers 82 their pivot points 106 on the ring 86 and 5 the. rods is such that the brake shoes therefore enablethe levers 82 to swing about is generally the case the operator does not- .levers in the plane of the axisof the shaft a ply equal pressure on opposite sides of t e ulley 3'2. T e essential mechanism described is preferably covered by asort of a roof strucoperator takes hold of handle 76 and on .moving it to the left until the'parts-as.

suine the position of Figures 1 and 2 throws in the. clutch mechanismand loosens the brake mechanism. In this position power transmitted through shaft 26 drives gear 24 and consequently gear 22'and the barrel 10. D .On moving lever 70 and attached parts to. the position of Figure 4 the brake shoes 89 are obviously set upon the pulley 32 and I the conical faces 56 of block 52are moved to the dotted line position of Fi re 2 so that the clutch is releasedand t e barrel ceases to rotate. .85,

The automatic brake adjusting mechanism described has advantages when used independently of the. clutch mechanism, but it is specially advantageous in securing easy, free automatic operation of the combined brake and clutch mechanism shown andde scribed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In mechanism of the class described, a brake pulley to be controlled, a pair of brake shoes oppositelydisposed on the pulley, levers supporting said brake shoes pivoted at a point at one side thereof, a'lever arm support pivoted at substantially the same point as the brake shoe supporting levers, brake shoe operating levers on said lever arm support, one adjacent 'to each brake shoe, andmeans for operating the brake operating lever, for the purposes set forth.

2. In mechanism of the class described, a brake pulley to be controlled, a pair of brake shoes oppositely disposed on the pulley, le-. vers supporting said brake shoes pivoted at -a point at one side thereof, a lever arm supmeans for adjusting each brake operating lever with reference to itsadjacent operating lever, for the purposes set forth. V

3. In mechanism of the class described, a shaft, a divided member passing on'opposite sides of the shaft, a pivot for the divided member at the side of the shaft ermitting it to rock transversely of the sha t, a brake operating block reciprocatable on the shaft,

pivoted on the divided member and rock able in and out from the shaft by-reciprocation of the block, a brake wheel concentric with the shaft, brake shoes operated by the 4. In mechanism of the classdescribed a.

., shaft, a ring around the shaft, a pivot for the ring at the side of the shaft permitting it to rock transversely of the shaft, a brake" operating block reciprocatable'on'the shaft, levers in the plane of the axis of the shaft pivoted on the ring and rockable in and out from the shaft by reciprocation of the block, a brake Wheel concentric with the shaft, brake shoes operated by the last mentioned levers movable to and fromthe brake wheel and a connection between each brake shoe and thepivot on which the ring rocks, for the purposes set forth.

5. In mechanism of the cl s described, a shaft, a ring around the sha t, a pivot for the ring at th side of the shaft permitting it to rock transversely of the shaft, a brake operating block recip'rocatable on the shaft, levers in the plane of the axis pivoted on the ring and rockable in and out from the shaft by reciprocation of the block,

a brake wheel concentric with the "shaft, brake shoes operated by the last mentioned levers movable to and from the brake wheel and a connection between each brake shoe and the pivot on which the ringrocks, and

a cover for the essential parts of the mechanism attached to the ring.

6. In mechanism of the class described, a shaft, a divided member passing on opposite sides of the shaft, a pivot for the divided member at the side of the shaft permitting it to rock transversely of the shaft, a brake operating block reciprocatable on the shaft, levers in the plane of the axis of the shaft pivoted on the divided member and rockable in and out from the shaft by reciprocation of the block, a brake wheel concentric with the shaft, brake shoes oper ated by the last mentioned levers movable to and from the brake wheel and a connection between each brake shoe and the pivot on which the divided member rocks, a clutch inside the brake wheel adapted to connect the wheel and shaft and means by which the of the shaft brake operating block throws the clutch in action when the brakes are released and vice versa.

7. In mechanism of-the class described, a

shaft, a divided member passing on opposite sides of the shaft, a pivot for the divided member at the side of the shaft permitting it to rock-transversely of the shaft, a brake operating block reciprocatable on the shaft, levers in the plane of the axis of the shaft pivoted on the divided member and rock-.

able in and out from the shaft by reciprocation of the block, a brake wheel concentric with the shaft, brake shoes operated-by the last mentioned levers movable to and from the brake wheel and a connection between each brake shoe and the pivot on which the divided member rocks, a clutch inside the brake wheel adapted to connect the wheel and shaft and means passing from the brake wheel through the divided member to the operating block, by which the brake operating block throws the clutch in action when the brakes are released and vice versa.

8. In mechanism of the class described, a shaft, a ring around the shaft, a pivot for the ring at the side of the shaft permitting it to rock transversely of the shaft, a brake operating block reciprocatable on the shaft, levers in the plane of the axis of the shaft pivoted on the ring and rockable in and out from the shaft by reciprocation of the block, a brake wheel concentric with the shaft, brake shoes operated by the last mentioned levers movable to and from the brake wheel and a connection between each brake shoe and the pivot on which the ring rocks, a clutch inside the brake wheel adapted to connect the wheel and shaft and means passing from the brake wheel through the ring to the operating block, by which the brake operating block throws the clutch in action when the brakes are released and vice versa.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

4 JOHN s. TOWNSEND. Witnesses: HARRY W. BAKER, L. D. REED. 

